Dig Diary – Sunday, August 20, 2017Day Thirty-Five A record-breaking open day The visitor record tumbled today as we welcomed almost 1,300 people to the Ness ...Read More Sunday, August 20, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Thursday, August 17, 2017Day Thirty-Four Puzzling developments and another 'butterfly' stone Cleaning, planning and photography occupied much of today at the Ness, all ...Read More Thursday, August 17, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Wednesday, August 16, 2017Day Thirty-Three Stone Age slow cooking... A huge amount of planning, drawing and photography is taking place on site today ...Read More Wednesday, August 16, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Tuesday, August 15, 2017Day Thirty-Two Structure Twenty-Seven revelations We are nearing the end of excavation for this year, with six days left of ...Read More Tuesday, August 15, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Monday, August 14, 2017Day Thirty-One A building older than Structure Twenty-Seven? “Execrable” is such a good word. It described last Friday’s weather perfectly, ...Read More Monday, August 14, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Friday, August 11, 2017Day Thirty Decorated stones and technical wizardry The weather is execrable today, utterly execrable. There was heavy rain in the ...Read More Friday, August 11, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Thursday, August 10, 2017Day Twenty-Nine 3D imaging to the rescue Lots of interest today centred around Structure Twenty-Six, which has been painstakingly excavated ...Read More Thursday, August 10, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Wednesday, August 9, 2017Day Twenty-Eight 'Gruelling, but fantastic' Work is continuing apace in Structure One, with the removal of the Phase Two curving ...Read More Wednesday, August 9, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Tuesday, August 8, 2017Day Twenty-Seven Wall's path detected on a day of delights Sometimes, just sometimes, there comes a flash of illumination like ...Read More Tuesday, August 8, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Monday, August 7, 2017Day Twenty-Six Water, water everywhere It was supposed to rain this morning, so site director Nick kept the diggers away ...Read More Monday, August 7, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Friday, August 4, 2017Day Twenty-Five A box, an entrance and the revenge of Trench T There were a number of interesting developments at ...Read More Friday, August 4, 2017 / ExcavationDig Diary – Thursday, August 3, 2017Day Twenty-Four Great walls and long-distance links Orkney, or at least the part on which the Ness of Brodgar is ...Read More Thursday, August 3, 2017 / Excavation‹ 1 … 39 40 41 42 43 … 63 ›